Looking Back In Wonder
admin It’s that time of the year again. Those of you who have been following my blog would know that I would make an entry with the same title of Looking…
2017
Going After Bullies And Forgetting The Ones Who Fight For Us
A couple took full advantage of an intellectually disabled Annie Ee who lived with them, taking her pay, making her work like a servant and even subjected her to physical…
Digging A Deeper Hole
Two people have dug themselves into deeper holes recently. One is Amos Yee. A bit more about his “paedophilia” video in a moment. First, let’s talk about our most talented…
Dear Amos
Dear Amos, When many folks out there were laughing at you and hoping that you get sent home after spending months in an American prison, I felt sorry for you.…
A Lifelong Gamble
In spite of its abstractness plus all that confounding poetry and philosophy attempting to praise and analyze it, we pretty much know and can agree on what love is. It’s…
Dying Before It Rains
Like many Singaporeans, I have thrifty parents. When I was young, they always reminded me to save up for a rainy day. That is of course, sound advice, but how…
Me Too, Me Too
So what’s new? Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most influential film moguls, has been facing a very rough month facing allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Big names…
If We Only Knew, That The Joke Was On Us
There has been a lot of frustration lately. Singaporeans who care more than what will happen in the next episode of Tanglin watched helplessly as an embarrassing saga unfolded before…
Pimps, Petai & Politicians
Thailand – an exotic land of extremes and paradoxes. It is also a land with some of the most colourful personalities in the world. Dull, sterile and strait-laced Singapore simply…
Sexless, Senseless & Cashless
It’s the Straits Times again: Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say was queueing up to buy chestnuts at a roadside hawker stall in Shanghai a few years ago. When he saw…